Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cypress Gardens, Florida
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Cypress Gardens — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cypress Gardens, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cypress Gardens itself.
The rest sit in Winter Haven (2).
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cypress Gardens
The readers mapped around Cypress Gardens break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Cypress Gardens Boulevard — 2 readers
- Cypress Gardens Road — 1 reader
- Lake Dexter Boulevard — 1 reader
- Lake Dexter Circle Southeast — 1 reader
- Eloise Loop Road — 1 reader
Cypress Gardens in the Polk County picture
Polk County has 306 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #721 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 760,961 residents and 4,544 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Cypress Gardens
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Cypress Gardens — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cypress Gardens (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cypress Gardens
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Cypress Gardens
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).